Mrs. Mecomber's Scrapbook

This is eyebrow-raising. Microsoft denies it built ‘backdoor’ in Windows 7 Don’t worry, company tells users; NSA involved only in security compliance standards November 19, 2009 (Computerworld) Microsoft today denied that it has built a backdoor into Windows 7, a concern that surfaced yesterday after a senior National Security Agency (NSA) official testified before Congress [...]

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Here’s a brief distraction from my (usually) serious tech talk. Hoh boy, this is ripe! Cow dung to power more Dutch homes AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A plant that converts cow dung into energy for homes opened in the Netherlands… Manure from cows at a nearby dairy farm will be fermented along with grass and food [...]

I am not very familiar with torrent files, but I am slowly getting into them. Torrents are small bits (bytes) of software or files that are downloaded, piece by piece, and fitted together to make a whole. Think of torrent files as a big jigsaw puzzle: the pieces are individual and scattered, but when you [...]

Windows by default has AutoPlay configured. AutoPlay (once called AutoRun in older Windows operating systems) is that little program that starts up the software whenever you connect a USB flash drive, an external hard drive, or pop in a CD or DVD. It was handy back in the old days of innocent computer use… but [...]

I think I mentioned this excellent software program before, but it’s worth mentioning again. It’s called Stellarium, and it’s a planetarium for the computer. My son absolutely loves it, and he’s learned some new things about the program to show us. One very cool feature is the ability to view constellation art, with major star [...]